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Dont’ make a perfect website ???
By Gil | March 6, 2008
Don’t make a perfect website?
Why not? Why would I say something like that? Wouldn’t that be ideal - to make your website perfect?
Yes, that would be ideal, but from personal experience - it’s just not possible to make a website, to standards that you would consider ‘perfect’, in a reasonable amount of time.
I have a site that is centered around one of my many interests - one that I am particularly fascinated with. And since this is one of my favorite past-times, I felt that I needed to have the perfect website for it. So, here I am - one annual domain name renewal later (plus some), with the site on its third re-design - still incomplete.
Although I do plan to monetize the site, probably with just some simple contextual ads, the niche has some very low paying keywords. My main motivation for the site is to enjoy it, and the user generated content and interaction, however, I am unable to do so.
Webservation and lesson learned:
Now, I’m not saying to skip taking the time to carefully plan your site and its design and just throw out some junk. If you are going to make a website, doesn’t matter if its just for fun, or as a money making venture - just make a decent looking, well planned site with good coding practices, and get it out on the web instead of striving for absolute perfection. Once you have the site published and are happy with the content and the direction of the site, you can always go back and make updates and additions to improve the site - and get it a little closer to ’perfection’.
The bottom line is if a website is something you really enjoy and are passionate about, there will ALWAYS be something you want to improve and make better - which is not a bad thing. But if you wait until the site is perfect before you publish out on the web, it’s likely going to be a really, really long time before that will happen, if ever.
Current State of my project?
Truth be told, I would like to take my site and re-design it a 4th time, with more of a pure CSS design. However, I am taking my own advice and sticking with my current development plan, and I estimate I should have the site near completion in about another month. The design is very modular, so it would not be extremely difficult to adopt a pure CSS design at a later time as an update. My goal for now is to just get the site finished and start enjoying it.
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